La pluie, la pluie, va-t'en !
Aller et venir d'un autre jour !
That's a literal translation of rain, rain, go away! Go and come another day!
I'm not saying that this weather is getting me down - Paris in the rain is quite extraordinarily beautiful... but I came this year with my new digicam all set to snap some wonderful pics, and it's almost impossible to hold a 'brolly, a shopping bag (or two!) and snap some pics! Sheesh! That being said, I snapped a fabulous photo of Paul in front of Notre Dame - and with a digital camera you can take as many pics as you like and not be afraid that you're going to ahve to pay for processing bad photos later.
So we've been experiencing intermittent showers EVERY DAY since we arrived, but the temp remains quite warm (today was 19C).
We went off to the Maris to the original Marriage Frere's tea shop, where we made several selections of tea to bring home with us. In usual fashion, after exiting the store, I desperately needed the facilities - but thankfully BHV HOMME (right around the corner) has relatively clean ones, although they make it almost impossible to find them (what is it with the French and their lack of toilets?). We eventually wandered in the rain from the right bank to left, infrom=nt of the hotel de Ville & across the Ille de la Cité and in front of Notre Dame. We seemed to be at a loss as to what to grab for lunch. We were in Saint Michel - which is a notorious high-price, low value, low-quality tourist feeding area. As you remember last year, we committed to NO MORE TOO EXPENSIVE BAD FOOD, so we hopped the Metro at the Sorbonne(!) and came home and made up a fine lunch from last night's left over chicken & potatoes along with a green salad.
We went out for a walk after supper at good Japanese place and I can't believe that I forgot to take my camera with me! The clouds were low in the air, obliterating the top of the Eiffel Tower, which would have made for a neat photo - and we walked back to the metro via place Concorde - a photographers dream!
Silly me - always remember the camera!
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| Heading out from pour Metro Station |
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| Great sign in the Marais |
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| Kosher Pizza in the Marais - no meat and cheese for you! |
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| Pulpit at the church of the White Penitents |
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| Notre-Dame - Impressive even in the rain |
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| Paul & his parapluie - you can even see the rain drops if you look close enough! Good Camera! |
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